Remove vs Relinquish - What's the difference?
remove | relinquish |
(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
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*(Bible), (w) xix.14:
*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 # To replace a dish within a course.
#*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond
(label) To murder.
To dismiss a batsman.
(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To depart, leave.
*:
*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple
(label) To change one's residence; to move.
*(William Shakespeare)
*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
*:Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.20:
*:Shortly after this, my father removed , and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
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The act of removing something.
* (rfdate) (Milton)
* (rfdate) (Goldsmith)
(archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
(British) (at some public schools ) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
* (rfdate) (Addison)
Distance in time or space; interval.
* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=James D. McCallister, title=King's Highway, page=162, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=DnRD6B3PPAoC&pg=PA162
, passage=In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.}}
(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
* (rfdate)
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
To give up, abandon or retire from something.
To let go (free, away), physically release.
To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
As verbs the difference between remove and relinquish
is that remove is (label) to move something from one place to another, especially to take away while relinquish is to give up, abandon or retire from something.As a noun remove
is the act of removing something.remove
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* unstayAntonyms
* (move something from one place to another) settle, place, addDerived terms
* removable * removal * removerNoun
(en noun)- This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
- And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
- A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
- It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
- (Jonathan Swift)
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 1000 English basic words ----relinquish
English
Verb
(es)- to relinquish a title
- to relinquish property
- to relinquish rights
- to relinquish citizenship or nationality
- But it was the most fleeting of false dawns. Dmitri Yachvilli slotted a penalty from distance after Flood failed to release his man on the deck, and France took a grip they would never relinquish .
- ''The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction